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OK, after playing with it myself for several days, and now the Geek Squad at
the local BB having a go, here's the deal...
HP Pavillion 8662C, Athlon 550, 384K mem, 2 HD's (20 and 30 Gig), Radeon
All-In-Wonder, Original Soundcard, NIC, DVD player and new Sony DVDRW, extra
cooling fans.
All data is backed up on D drive.
Ran fine with 98, then SE, upgraded to XP Home Jan-Feb 05 with no connection
to internet since last virus scan after XP Home install... (we moved in Mar,
and I did not hook it up again till 2 weeks ago) Last week, I installed new
DVDRW, still running fine...THEN!!!
Installed XP PRO Upgrade, sys would start correctly once or twice then would
hang at startup screen (scanner bars)...but BIOS recognized everything and it
would start in Safe Mode, with everything there (video, NIC, etc...)
Clean install on C: drive with new partition, same thing again, start up
normal once or twice, then hangs at startup screen.
Removed everything but video and another clean install, slowly start adding
things, even loaded updated video drivers from ATI... again one or two
normal boots then a hang. (4 total clean installs)
Geeks did the same thing, ran chkdsk, tried to look at bootlogs (sys hang),
disconnected the extra fans (in case it was failing PS), disconnected 'D'
drive (in case it was a virus), even installed a new CMOS battery... one of
them even got it onto the internet and did the latest updates from
Microsoft... several normal starts later... they call me and say it's fixed,
I get there, they unplug it from the bench and move it up to the counter and
it hangs when they go to boot it for me, move it back to the bench and the
same thing (multiple times, multiple geeks).
When it does boot normal, everything is recognized as running normal by
windows.
(One of the kids thinks it just doesn't like me ;-) maybe I yelled at it too
much in the past)
FIRST, any ideas???
Second, is there anything like the old step-by-step startup, where I can at
least see where it might be hanging up?
We tried turning on a "bootlog" at one of the startup screens when it was
booting normal, and of course it hung on the next shot and we could not see
anything when we fired it up in safe mode. Is there a boot log that can be
viewed from "C prompt"?
P.S. can't legally go back to the XP HE, that is now loaded onto my wife's
Dell.
Thanks in advance.
the local BB having a go, here's the deal...
HP Pavillion 8662C, Athlon 550, 384K mem, 2 HD's (20 and 30 Gig), Radeon
All-In-Wonder, Original Soundcard, NIC, DVD player and new Sony DVDRW, extra
cooling fans.
All data is backed up on D drive.
Ran fine with 98, then SE, upgraded to XP Home Jan-Feb 05 with no connection
to internet since last virus scan after XP Home install... (we moved in Mar,
and I did not hook it up again till 2 weeks ago) Last week, I installed new
DVDRW, still running fine...THEN!!!
Installed XP PRO Upgrade, sys would start correctly once or twice then would
hang at startup screen (scanner bars)...but BIOS recognized everything and it
would start in Safe Mode, with everything there (video, NIC, etc...)
Clean install on C: drive with new partition, same thing again, start up
normal once or twice, then hangs at startup screen.
Removed everything but video and another clean install, slowly start adding
things, even loaded updated video drivers from ATI... again one or two
normal boots then a hang. (4 total clean installs)
Geeks did the same thing, ran chkdsk, tried to look at bootlogs (sys hang),
disconnected the extra fans (in case it was failing PS), disconnected 'D'
drive (in case it was a virus), even installed a new CMOS battery... one of
them even got it onto the internet and did the latest updates from
Microsoft... several normal starts later... they call me and say it's fixed,
I get there, they unplug it from the bench and move it up to the counter and
it hangs when they go to boot it for me, move it back to the bench and the
same thing (multiple times, multiple geeks).
When it does boot normal, everything is recognized as running normal by
windows.
(One of the kids thinks it just doesn't like me ;-) maybe I yelled at it too
much in the past)
FIRST, any ideas???
Second, is there anything like the old step-by-step startup, where I can at
least see where it might be hanging up?
We tried turning on a "bootlog" at one of the startup screens when it was
booting normal, and of course it hung on the next shot and we could not see
anything when we fired it up in safe mode. Is there a boot log that can be
viewed from "C prompt"?
P.S. can't legally go back to the XP HE, that is now loaded onto my wife's
Dell.
Thanks in advance.